DEMOCRATS CAPTURE STATEHOUSES : GUBERNATORIAL HOPEFULS TAKE GOP STRONGHOLDS.Byline: Michael Janofsky The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times As President Clinton won a second term on Tuesday night with surprising victories in former Republican strongholds like Florida and New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , Democratic candidates for governor also appeared headed to victory in states well-known for their Republican leanings. In Indiana, which Clinton failed to win for the second time, voters kept the governor's office Democratic. Lt. Gov. Frank O'Bannon Frank Lewis O'Bannon (1930-2003) was an American politician who was Governor of Indiana from 1997 until his death, on September 13, 2003. Background O'Bannon was a native of Corydon, Indiana (the first state capital of Indiana), where his family owned the narrowly defeated Stephen Goldsmith Stephen "Steve" Goldsmith (born December 12, 1946) is a graduate of Wabash College and the University of Michigan Law School, and is the former Mayor of Indianapolis and currently serves as the Chair of the Corporation for National and Community Service. , the mayor of Indianapolis, who was widely perceived as a rising star in the national Republican Party. And in New Hampshire, where a Democrat has not served as governor in 16 years, Jean Shaheen, a longtime state legislator, was well on the way to defeating her Republican challenger, Ovide Lamontagne, the former head of the state Board of Education. And the Democrats had far more to celebrate Tuesday night as victories by four incumbent governors - Thomas Carper in Delaware, Mel Carnahan Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan (February 11, 1934 – October 16, 2000) was an American politician who was Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000. A Democrat, he died in a plane crash on the Pevely and Hillsboro, Missouri border during a campaign for the U.S. in Missouri, James Hunt This article is about the racing driver. For other people named James Hunt, see James Hunt (disambiguation). James Simon Wallis Hunt (b. 29 August 1947, Belmont, Surrey – d. Jr. in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. and Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. in Vermont - gave them a majority of the 11 gubernatorial contests this year. Republican incumbents - Marc Racicot of Montana, Michael Leavitt of Utah and Edward Schafer of North Dakota - were favored in three other races. Early results in Washington did not establish either candidate, Gary Locke, the Democratic King County executive, or state Sen. Ellen Craswell, a Republican, as a leader. Republicans and Democrats were in a close race in West Virginia, one of the most Democratic states in the country, where Charlotte Pritt, a coal miner's daughter, opposed a former governor, Cecil Underwood, in a race to succeed Gaston Caperton. Underwood, who became West Virginia's youngest governor when he was elected in 1956, would become the state's oldest governor if he wins. He turned 74 on Tuesday. Indiana, where Gov. Evan Bayh was barred by law from seeking a third consecutive term, has supported a Democrat for president only four times this century and not since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. But O'Bannon said the voters were nonetheless impressed by the eight-year record of Bayh, who has taken credit for 350,000 new jobs in his two terms, a 30 percent drop in the number of welfare recipients in the past two years and a budget surplus of $1.67 billion in the past fiscal year. In New Hampshire, Shaheen, 49, a three-term state senator who appeared to benefit from a succession of visits by Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, appeared likely to become the state's first female governor. Before Election Day, only one other woman was serving as a state's chief executive, Christie Whitman of New Jersey, who was elected in 1993. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion